RE: [xsl] apache fop - formating question

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas,

If you haven't already (I lost your original post, sorry) you might do some 
research in the fo:float element and its 'float' and 'clear' attributes -- 
as well as the level of support your formatter gives to fo:float. Unless 
you can put these to work (and FOP doesn't have any support for floats at 
all AFAIK), I'm afraid XSL-FO isn't up to the job even with SVG's help; 
think about how you might post-process (which means targetting your FO to 
some format that allows this) to achieve the effect you want.

I disagree with Bryan that there is an approach to this through SVG. While, 
as he suggests, SVG can specify (and conformant renderers can display) text 
along a path, this is a far cry from supporting flowing and wrapping, even 
into the plainest of rectangles.

Cheers,
Wendell


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